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IDIOTOFTHEWEEK:CANADIANHEALTHMINISTERRONAAMBROSE

To all our friends to the south of us in the United States, we can honestly say we feel your pain of ultra right wing politics. Our current government in Canada continues to use right wing ideology to drum up votes while sick people fight for comfort. This week our Supreme Court ruled that medical marijuana, which is legal in this country now, can not only be smoked, but consumed by eating it. Our Fucking Idiot of the Week goes our federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose for these comments made after the ruling came down. Hey lady, marijuana makes people feel better, and when you have a kid who suffers from crippling seizures and marijuana helps stop these, it might be better to feed him a pot cookie than make him smoke a joint, you fucking idiot. I don’t care what your political affiliations are or how you feel about ‘illegal’ drugs, but if a substance is proven to help a kid fight seizures and support a better quality of life, then fuck you if you try to take that away based on some bullshit ideological sham. Shame on you. – FATS

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The difficult part about the whole medical marijuana issue is that there haven’t been any really good scientific proof that has shown marijuana actually accomplishes what people are saying it does. There are plenty of folks who say it does, but saying it and proving it are two different things. Add onto that, what people want marijuana for is often to replace other drugs already approved that do mostly the same things. So cost is partly the reason for some (not all) but with the advent of the medical marijuana movement, the actual pricing of said marijuana is often more expensive than the drugs people are hoping to replace.

What I think needs to be done is marijuana needs to be reclassified so that it can be tested scientifically and proven as a viable drug, then allow pharmaceuticals to submit for approval of these drugs. Until that happens, marijuana should not be legalized as a medicine. It may be stupid, but rules are rules and they must be followed and to get rid of a rule that may or may not be bad must be done properly.

I agree fully. However, this government has no intentions of testing marijuana for its medicinal use. The other drugs that are approved work some of the time, and at 10 times the cost – sometimes 1000 times the cost. This has big pharma written all over it. I have worked in cancer care in this country and the medications are incredibly expensive, dwarfing any cost of marijuana. Legalize the stuff. Tax it and sell it like you would liquor, in a controlled environment. I have been using marijuana all my life, but it has only been since I started really enjoying whiskey that I have had any medical problems based on my vices. Legalize it. Colorado brought in ove a billion in revenue in 1 year, and employed a shit tonne of people to work in the tourism industry because of it. If you can sell whiskey legally, it is stupid you can’t sell marijuana. And, whiskey isn’t helping cancer patients or kids with seizure disorders.